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Instrument Time Offset

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Description

I was thinking about this for some time - could we allow making one of the tracks play 50ms before all the rest?

Sometimes, with pads that have long attack, you'd want to make them start their notes a bit before other instruments, so the note can develop enought when the beat hits.

I've just launched ReNoise on KXStudio - and it has this option on the mixer. You can delay/predelay each track +/- 100ms.

I guess that predelaying one track simply makes all other be delayed by an inverted value.

It could be named TIME OFFSET.

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Start by locating the mixer track and playback-scheduling entry points, then compare how per-track timing is represented. Define how a TIME OFFSET range such as +/-100ms should affect one track relative to the others, including the proposed inverted delay behavior; done means the offset works consistently for tracks and is covered by relevant audio or mixer tests.

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Tech stack
cpp
Domain
audio-video-rtc, desktop
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
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Over a week
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Stale
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Mostly clear
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